elf coredump: add extended numbering support

The current ELF dumper implementation can produce broken corefiles if
program headers exceed 65535.  This number is determined by the number of
vmas which the process have.  In particular, some extreme programs may use
more than 65535 vmas.  (If you google max_map_count, you can find some
users facing this problem.) This kind of program never be able to generate
correct coredumps.

This patch implements ``extended numbering'' that uses sh_info field of
the first section header instead of e_phnum field in order to represent
upto 4294967295 vmas.

This is supported by
AMD64-ABI(http://www.x86-64.org/documentation.html) and
Solaris(http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1984/).
Of course, we are preparing patches for gdb and binutils.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/elfcore.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/elfcore.c
index 57a2298a858..bac1639bc32 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/elfcore.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/elfcore.c
@@ -62,3 +62,19 @@ int elf_core_write_extra_data(struct file *file, size_t *size,
 	}
 	return 1;
 }
+
+size_t elf_core_extra_data_size(void)
+{
+	const struct elf_phdr *const gate_phdrs =
+		(const struct elf_phdr *) (GATE_ADDR + GATE_EHDR->e_phoff);
+	int i;
+	size_t size = 0;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < GATE_EHDR->e_phnum; ++i) {
+		if (gate_phdrs[i].p_type == PT_LOAD) {
+			size += PAGE_ALIGN(gate_phdrs[i].p_memsz);
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+	return size;
+}